Barbara Kay: Children’s aid
societies gone rogue

In a rare victory for common sense, a judge
has pointedly rebuked a CAS for its appalling conduct.

It was called “the trial that never ends.” A custody battle, in which
the London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society (CAS) became the cynosure of
a London court’s ire, took place over 154 days, causing a huge backlog
in other cases. It’s a tawdry tale, but it speaks to an untreated cancer
in the child-services domain that cries out for chemotherapy.

The story began in 2010 when the London-Middlesex CAS applied for a
court order to protect three boys, aged 15, 12 and 5, after a parental
separation (the family name cannot be divulged). The mother had made
multiple accusations demonizing the father: that he emotionally abused
her; that he was a sexual abuser; and that he was a murderer who used
the oldest boy “as a gun in his hands to try to kill the mother of these
three children,” in words from Judge John Harper’s decision.

The mother was, to put it mildly — confirmed by recordings, e-mails
and text messages — unreliable and manipulative. The three boys
repeatedly alerted the CAS to their mother’s violence, alcoholism and
sexual indiscretions. Yet the CAS blithely ignored all evidence to the
contrary of their own settled conviction that the mother deserved their
support.

Finally the mother accused her oldest son of trying to kill her,
which brought the family into criminal court. Yet after a preliminary
hearing, and ever-shifting testimony from the mother, the Crown reduced
the charge to “excessive self-defence.”

Judge Harper assigned two-thirds of the court costs to the CAS — a
record $1.4 million — and $604,500 to the mother. He had scathing words
for the CAS, whom he charged with becoming “a lead advocate” for the
mother and the driving force for the trial. He said that the agency went
to great lengths to smother any evidence that countered their theory
that the mother was the victim, overlooking her ever-shifting
narratives, with their notes referring to her as the “Society’s client.”

It was revealed at trial that mandatory document-sharing was running
a year late, and that one CAS supervisor, tasked with providing
information to lawyers, had removed 475 pages of notes, records,
summaries and emails from the file. (This, by the way, is a criminal
offence, although to my knowledge the supervisor has not been charged.)
Judge Harper also noted that meetings were held to discuss how to
protect the mother and case workers from the father.

This case is not shocking at
all to long-time critics of child-protection services

Judge Harper wrote that that the father was lucky to “dig out from
under the avalanche thrust upon him,” and that “the scars to the
children” were permanent. In summary, “This was exacerbated by the
actions of the Society, some police officers, some women’s groups, a
school board and her employers … many of whom accepted without any level
of scrutiny the (woman’s) self-reports.”

This case may be shocking to readers who have not been exposed to the
systemic abuses that run rampant throughout child-protection services,
but it is not shocking at all to long-time critics, only one more
heartbreaking story revealing the gender bias, amateurism and
power-tripping that flourishes for lack of a checks-and-balance system
that protects child and parent victims from arbitrary actions like those
recorded in this trial.

What is shocking to me about this case is that the CAS’s depthless
pockets for protective litigation services weren’t enough to stave off
justice. I receive on average a CAS horror story a week — mostly
well-documented narratives from fathers similarly victimized by
mother-supportive CAS case workers — and these dads just don’t have the
money or the strategic cunning (sadly needed) to go up against the CAS
behemoth. I have followed the stories of several men — smart,
disciplined, determined to remain fully engaged with their children, and
convinced that their airtight cases of professional misconduct would
right the wrongs they had suffered — and one by one seen them stymied at
every turn by a circling of the CAS wagons in defence of the mothers.

Everyone knows the
child-services stable needs a good mucking-out, but no political party
in power will seize the shovel.

CAS workers cannot be sued if they have acted “in good faith.” In the
Middlesex-London case, Judge Harper noted that the CAS had “acted in bad
faith.” Sadly, they act in bad faith all the time. Getting nailed for it
is the exception.

Everyone knows the child-services stable needs a good mucking-out,
but no political party in power will seize the shovel. Suppose this case
were gender-reversed. If an alcoholic, abusive father had custody of the
children; if the children begged their case workers for help; and if the
case workers rebuffed them in order to protect the father: would it not
act as a wake-up call?

Wake up!

National Post

Our comment in the National Post

The Children's Aid Society of Ottawa has similar problems to the above
story, with children repeatedly making disclosure a culture of hatred
towards fathers.

Children's Aid Society of Ottawa "worker" Claudette Knuckl-Dougan calls
children who report abuse "Liars" and then claims to have the ability of
a psychriatrist to determine that the most violent of mother's has
suddenly, "changed" and is no longer violent despite ongoing disclosures
of violence by mothers towards children.

Then there is her Supervisor Robert Godman who is seen walking regularly
with CAS lawyer Marguerite Lewis who also personally fabricates evidence
to protect criminals like Phil Hiltz-Laforge who also fabricates
evidence to abuse children and place children at a risk of harm.

Robert Godman as a supervisor, is a director of operations of this
Criminal Organization that uses $80 Million dollars of taxpayers money
to abuse children.

While workers openly fabricate evidence they can only do so under the
direction and protection of the likes of Robert Godman aka Rob Godman

who in effect is leader of a criminal organization that uses TaxPayer
money to abuse children and male victims of domestic violence.

If you are a victim of the likes of Claudette Knuckle-Dougan, Robert
Godman aka Rob Godman, or have information about their prior criminal
offenses, please email stopcasdotca@Gmail.com

Don't expect any assistance from the Ottawa Police, who treat the CAS as
their masters who give them orders to charge, not charge, arrest and who
to release.

We live in a very corrupt dangerous world thanks to the underbellies of
society like Claudette Knuckle-Dougan and Robert Godman who leave a
very large expensive trail of destroyed lives and children.